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There are two ways to install haskell-platform, from the main portage tree or the overlay. The overlay is recommended as the overlay includes additional haskell packages that are not in the portage tree.

To get the latest version use the overlay. If you haven't already, install layman (this is used to setup overlays). Then run 'layman -a haskell' to install the haskell overlay. Now you are ready to install.

Gentoo portage packaging policy requires that packages can not be marked stable until they have been in the portage tree for > 30 days. Some of the ebuilds are not stable yet, so they need to be enabled by adding these entries to /etc/portage/package.keywords: